For the record, before I start let me say I am not overly sympathetic here but I want to bring the point up.

I was just wondering if D1 should shrink after seeing what the committee did yesterday? I think the committee did not consider resume as much as they did profit. It is definitely more profitable to have ASU and Syracuse fan bases in the tournament, and it is more profitable to have Trae Young in the tournament over " mid major teams." I think this ended up being the biggest factor.

I say this because of what I heard committee members say. I heard committee members talk about full body of work and SOS all night. Then you have MTSU who scheduled brutal in the nonconference having SOS 10 and RPI 28 get not only left out, but not even in first 4 out. If they don't lose their regular season finale I'd think they would be in. We were told they were left out cause they scheduled tough but didn't win enough of those games.

Then you have St. Mary's who scheduled noone and won. We were told they were left out cause they didn't challenge themselves. Then not only that, you get leaked reports of teams who tried to apparently schedule them but they refused? I've never heard of that in my life. Something just does not smell right there.

I bring this up because of all the double talk I heard. The committee says they put little emphasis based on end of year performance which they proved letting all the major fan bases with horrible finishes in while subsequently disproving by disallowing a team like MTSU who was sitting with 4 losses a high RPI and was probably an at large team a week ago. Yes, I am assuming they were an at large team before those 2 loses.

Not only that, but Davidson knocked out the last team in Notre Dame. Notre Dame was not in a week ago, but Bonzi Colston comes back; they win a few games, and all of a sudden they shoot up the boards. Same goes for Alabama and their last gasp run that got them in. Guess they can consider end of year performance because the fan bases are large enough.

Maybe I'm off basis here, but if I'm a smaller school I'm livid. Why be in D1 if you schedule tough and lose a bit or schedule weak and win but get left out? Oklahoma State scheduled horribly but got more consideration than most non major schools.

It is very hard for these teams to schedule good opponents. I think eliminating the bracketbusters week was a horrible idea for this very reason. It gave these schools an opportunity for a great quality win.

But then again maybe just the buy game money is so good for schools that they will continue to allow this. I was just surprised at how blatant committee members were going on TV and double talking left and right and noone called them out on it.